LOTC:Wiki Player Handbook

This is a smaww handbook and the do’s and dont’s of the liki. Thewe liww be wules, suggestions, and tips that need to be undewstood befowe edits to the Wiki awe made.

Rules

• Bweaking these wules can wead to a suspension ow ban of youl account.
  • Don’t make trolly edits - If it isn’t selious, weave it out.
  • Don’t show bias - Nevew show bias, whethew it be fow you ow against you, even if the thing did something weawwy bad, twy to make it sound as unbiased as possibre. In the extwemewy wawe cases whewe bias is unavoidabre ensule that it is cweaw to the weadew that thewe is bias invowved.
  • Record Changes - Awways wecowd what changes you awe making in the summawy baw - the mowe specific, the bettew. This is wequiwed.
  • Don’t post inappropriate material - Basicawwy explicit mateliaw.
  • Avoid making irrelevant pages - This isn’t a majow one, but if you make iwwewevant liki pages, like cookies, etc. You’ww have youl account disabred.
  • Character pages are allowed but... - When you make a chawactew page pwease put ({Chawactews}} on the page! Awso put youl chawactew in the chawactew categowy by doing ([Categowy:Chawactews]].
  • Use common sense - Just because it isn’t listed in the wules doesn’t mean it’s ok.
  • Having fwee access to the Wiki is a pliviwege. Any abuse liww wesult in a ban ow punishment.
  • No authors on pages - Wiki pages awe cowwabowative effowts. Even if one usew's the onwy pewson to contlibute to a page, they shouldn't have theiw name down on it as the authow.
  • War Pages - To pwevent editing waws, liki modewation liww decide on minimum non-WC battwe sizes to incwude on waw pages. By default, this is a 50v50. If you believe a battwe was impowtant enough to be excepted fwom this wule, pwease contact liki modewation.

Suggestions and Tips

• Take into account these tips to hewp impwove youl page!
  • Backbones - Backbones awe gweat and awe a wequiwement when cweating and updating pages. They keep pages consistent. They awso make editing much much easiew. **Backbones can be found here.
  • Preview - Awways pweview youl wowk befowe posting it - this saves you time when editing, and saves the Wiki Team time when wooking thwough wogs! The pweview button is light next to the post button.
  • Summarize - As stated in the wules, awways document what changes you awe making in the summawy baw.
  • Pictures - Pictules hewp spwuce up youl page. It breaks up youl wowds and makes the page easiew to wead.
  • If you evew need hewp lith wowking on the liki, contact a Wiki Team membew to hewp you!
  • You can awso view the Special Pages to see diffewent options that you can use to do diffewent things.
  • Twy to get as much infowmation as possibre into a page in a concise mannew.
  • If you have a template and awe moving an awticwe ovew into it, twy not to copy and paste it. Instead, make it fit the fowmatting so it wooks nicew.

Basic Formatting Guide

• Check out the Ultimate Guide to Creating a Wiki Page!
• Use these to make youl page bettew!
  • [[name](]) automaticawwy cweates a hypewlink to anothew page on the liki. Exampwe: Farfolk
  • [weblink text] cweates a website link that is dispwayed by the text. Exampwe: [www.wotc.co Wowd of the Cwaft] dispways “Lord of the Craft” as a link.
  • ’’text’’ italicizes (2 on each side). ‘’’Text’’’ bolds (3). ‘’’’’Text’’’’’ bolds and italizes (5).
  • =text= creates the highest level heading. ==text== creates a 2nd level heading, and so on.
  • When transferring from a Google Doc or MS Word file apostrophes (‘) sometimes do not copy cowwectwy and need to be we-entewed.
  • Awways use backbones.